Package preinstallation in interactive mode

[mallniya]

I wonder if it's possible to preinstall packages in jail or run some bootstrap for the jail while using poudriere bulk -i? This can be useful as some debugging occurs in the jail, so it's great to have your shell/texed/lint or such in an environment. If no please consider this as feature request.

[bdrewery]

Yes we could add a pre-interactive hook (https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/wiki/hooks). I'll add this for 3.2.

[rootwyrm]

Giving this a bump because my workflow has exposed a related issue. I basically do layered sets; production has the ports that apply to everything, then I have 'sub-sets' like mail, www, etc. which contain either additional ports or changed options (now that priority is working in pkgng.)

You can already guess where this is going. And obviously, it's not something that can be done in hooks easily if at all. (Would have to determine the full package set to build, calculate the dependency tree, compare dependencies against the set list, etc.) Being able to point poudriere to production and tell it "attempt pkg install for a dependency first from here before doing a build" would save quite literally hundreds of hours just in llvm* alone.

[michael-o]

Giving this a bump because my workflow has exposed a related issue. I basically do layered sets; production has the ports that apply to everything, then I have 'sub-sets' like mail, www, etc. which contain either additional ports or changed options (now that priority is working in pkgng.)

You can already guess where this is going. And obviously, it's not something that can be done in hooks easily if at all. (Would have to determine the full package set to build, calculate the dependency tree, compare dependencies against the set list, etc.) Being able to point poudriere to production and tell it "attempt pkg install for a dependency first from here before doing a build" would save quite literally hundreds of hours just in llvm* alone.

Exactly my case. You read my mind.